Samuel Adams Hartwell Jr. ’52

Sam died July 11, 2019.

He came to us from Deerfield. At Princeton he majored in English and joined Ivy. He roomed with Bill Brokaw, Dudley Sharp, and Jim Laughlin.

After Army service, in 1956 he earned an MBA from Harvard, and he had a career in finance at Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch. He was co-chairman of G.S. Blodgett Corp.

In 1984 Sam co-founded the East Harlem Employment Service, known as STRIVE, an early model for workforce development that has helped many thousands of persons to find and keep jobs. It’s now active in a number of cities across the country.

Sam is survived by his four children, Ellen, Charlotte, Annie, and Sam. To them the class sends its sympathies, with thanks for Sam’s service to our country and to the Harlem community, as well as for many others seeking work.